SALT LAKE CITY – Mormon critics reacting to the release of photos of Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s chocolate-colored “seer stone,” see it as another reason to view the Mormon prophet as a conniving ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church for the first time is publishing photos of a small sacred stone it believes founder Joseph Smith used to help translate the story that became the basis of the ...

Between 1827 and 1830, Joseph Smith transcribed the Book of Mormon from ancient golden plates, translating their ancient Egyptian language into English by means of a brown, egg-shaped “seer stone.” ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released never-before-seen images of the "seer stone" used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon from golden plates. The ...

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – The Mormon Church released photographs on Tuesday (August 3) of a so-called “seer stone” that members believe was used by the Utah-based faith’s founder, Joseph Smith, to ...

The Mormon Church released photographs on Tuesday of a so-called "seer stone" that members believe was used by the Utah-based faith's founder, Joseph Smith, to write the Book of Mormon, its principal ...

Editors of 'The Joseph Smith Papers' recently presented a lecture at the Gordon B. HInckley Alumni Center that shed light on the history behind the papers. Original photo of the Book of Mormon printer ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon critics reacting to the release of photos of Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s chocolate-colored “seer stone,” see it as another reason to view the Mormon prophet as a conniving ...

Salt Lake City — The Mormon church’s push toward transparency about its roots and beliefs took another step forward Tuesday with the first published pictures of a small sacred stone it believes ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church’s push toward transparency about its roots and beliefs took another step forward Tuesday with the first published pictures of a small sacred stone it believes ...